Film Production
Shemaroo releases ‘RK Films-The Immortal Collection’
MUMBAI: Shemaroo has released the album RK Films – The Immortal Collection on VCD. The album, which is a six VCD pack, is a collector’s item featuring 72 songs from films produced under the RK Banner. Three VCDs of the pack comprise 36 songs from Black and White era while the other three comprise 36 songs in colour.
The RK Banner is synonymous with melodies and good music which has entertained music lovers over several decades. Raj Kapoor always believed that good music was an essential ingredient for the success of a film. Over the years R. K Banner has delivered some of the best songs which are considered to be Gems for music lovers.
Shemaroo says that the pack celebrates 51 years of R.K.Films, right from Aag (1948) to Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999) as it unfolds one melody after the other from India’s most prestigious movie-making banner. The films range from the ones in which Raj Kapoor has acted/ directed to the ones which he has only directed. It also consists of films like Boot Polish, Ab Dilli Dur Nahin and Jagte Raho which were directed by rank outsiders for the R.K.Banner as well as films like Kal Aaj Aur Kal which was directed by Randhir Kapoor.
Shemaroo adds that The Immortal collection series has been presented in the form of an album.
Film Production
Disney to cut 1,000 jobs under new chief executive
The entertainment giant’s freshly installed boss inherits a restructuring already in motion, with marketing and corporate roles bearing the brunt
CALIFORNIA: Walt Disney is preparing to slash up to 1,000 jobs in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, as the entertainment giant’s freshly installed chief executive moves swiftly to trim fat and tighten the ship.
The cuts, less than 1 per cent of Disney’s global workforce of 231,000, will fall hardest on marketing and corporate roles. The planning, notably, began before D’Amaro formally took the top job in March, suggesting the new boss inherited a restructuring already in motion rather than one of his own making.
Driving the push is Asad Ayaz, Disney’s newly appointed chief marketing officer, who in January assumed command of a unified, company-wide marketing operation spanning film, television and streaming. His consolidation drive has been given a suitably cinematic internal name: Project Imagine.
The move is modest by Disney’s recent standards. Between 2023 and 2025, under former chief executive Bob Iger, the company eliminated roughly 8,000 positions across several brutal rounds of cuts, saving $7.5 billion, comfortably exceeding its own targets. As recently as June 2025, several hundred more jobs were axed across Disney Entertainment, hitting film and television marketing, publicity, casting, development and corporate finance.
Disney’s structural headaches are well-documented: shrinking streaming margins, a weakened box office, and fierce competition from Amazon and YouTube gnawing at its flanks. The company is merging its Disney+ and Hulu teams into a single app, has brought in consultants from Bain & Co to guide its broader cost strategy, and is betting heavily on digital growth.
The wider entertainment industry offers little comfort. Sony Pictures, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have all taken the knife to their workforces in recent years, and further cuts loom if Paramount’s acquisition of Warner goes through.
For D’Amaro, the message is clear: there will be no honeymoon period. The magic kingdom still has some cost-cutting spells left to cast.
